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Mobilityy
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Moving Ahead

Marvin Ammori, General Counsel, Hyperloop One, speaks about the sustainability of future
mobility while keeping in mind the fast moving technology and ongoing transformations.

By Alkesh Sharma, Dubai

T oday, everybody is talking about autonomous vehicles, there will be verti- assembled — all of that is going to change.
new innovative concepts that are
cal take-off and landing planes, people
And if you look at our company, we have
might have their personal drones and they
already started working in this direction
shaping the transportation sec-
tor. Hyperloop is one of the most
consumer side and of course my view is
revolutionary concepts of all. How do will travel in them. Well that is all on the by doing extensive research and develop-
ing new software and hardware. We are
you look at the future of mobility glob- that the one backbone or one central force very serious toward evolving logistics in-
ally as well as in this region? stitching all of these elements together will frastructure in a very hassle-free manner
Mobility is one of the areas that are going be Hyperloops — connecting people from and so far results are encouraging.
through massive disruptions right now. If city to city and from region to region. In fact some of the biggest companies
we look at the pace in which things are are also interested in the logistics sector,
developing in this sector, there would be From the consumer side, it sounds very like one of the biggest investors is DP
many revolutionary changes in the next interesting, as there will be many ad- world, right here in Dubai. And these
10 to 15 years from now. vancements. But how things will devel- companies see a clear transformation in
The way people will get around will be op on the logistics side? how goods are moved, for example right
completely different as compared to how Now on the logistics side, the way in which now the things are on the ship, there is a
it is happening today. They won’t be driv- your Amazon package gets delivered will container, then they are moved via trucks
ing perhaps. They will be going around in totally change, also the way your shoes get — all of this is going to change drastically.

52 TRENDS | February 2018